Townes Van Zandt – Fraternity Blues (Guitar)

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I decided to improve my social station

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I joined a fraternal organization

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Tucked in my shirt, signed on the line

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Right away they set about to improve my mind

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The car I drove, the books I read,

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the food I ate, the booze I drank,

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the girls I took out,

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My breath

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They said "kid we don't much like the way you walk

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and you're gonna have to change the way you talk"

      G
They said "your dress is kinda sluochy

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Said you got to learn to bubble

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You got to bubble with enthusiamm,

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I started bubblin'

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The most important thing you can't forget

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Is learning the entire Greek alphabet

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how that's gonna' make me any more of a man

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But I learned it

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I can rip through that son-of-a-beta backwards in 5 seconds

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Then they hit me with some pretty bad news

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Concerning the payment of monthly dues

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I never did know where that money went

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but I paid it

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I'm no trouble causer and besides, I figured that's life

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If you want good friends, they're gonna cost ya

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Well it finally got to be party time

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I got a great big ole jug of wine

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I went back to the house in about an hour

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Brandy alexanders and frozen dqauaris

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Reciting the greek alphabet to one another

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I could see I was gonna have to do my very best

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To get myself out of that fraternity mess

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So I stood right there outside the door

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And I chugged that wine like never before

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Walked inside and bubbled -

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all over a couple of their dates

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So now everything is back to normal again

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but there is still lots of room for improvement, friend

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Of course that fraternity stuff's too much for me

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Next time I'm gonna' join a sorotity

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And really give em something to bubble about